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Disabilities suck

SystemSystem Member, NoReporting Posts: 178,019 Arc User
edited July 2011 in Star Trek Online General Discussion
I've been getting really upset by the lack of disabled people within STO, I mean I have to use a wheel chair in real life, I'd like to be able to use one in the game too. Capt Pike had one, so its certainly cannon, any chance this could be added?
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  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Maybe they have gotten better at repairing the body in STO's time period.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    The.Grand.Nagus wrote: »
    Maybe they have gotten better at repairing the body in STO's time period.

    But Capt Pike? Aslo there was a chick in DS9 that had a wheel chair.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    FurQue wrote:
    But Capt Pike? Aslo there was a chick in DS9 that had a wheel chair.

    Like I said, in STO's time period. That is 30ish years after Nemesis.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    The.Grand.Nagus wrote: »
    Maybe they have gotten better at repairing the body in STO's time period.

    Like that episode of TNG, "Ethics" - the genitronic replicator, where they were able to scan the genetic information and basically replicate a new organ to replace the damaged one. It's been forty years since then, I'm sure it's probably had SOME innovation by now, heh.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    What about the elderly and infirm? I'm almost there! There simply has to be wheel chairs. :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    True. What if someone was missing their legs from a great battle? Or their body was cut in half? I'm game for wheel chairs.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    MegaZer0 wrote: »
    True. What if someone was missing their legs from a great battle? Or their body was cut in half? I'm game for wheel chairs.

    Nog lost a leg in battle. They simply replaced it.

    But like any military or shipping, piloting industry, wouldn't there be restrictions if you were in a wheelchair?

    Not trying to cause offence, but surely Starfleet ship officers have to be in top physical condition to carry out there tasks which could be quiet strenuous and demanding.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    FurQue wrote:
    What about the elderly and infirm? I'm almost there! There simply has to be wheel chairs. :(

    Remember this episode? That said, I dont believe people that age are still serving in Starfleet. There is probably a mandatory retirement after 100(for humans anyway) or something =p
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Seraphs wrote: »
    Nog lost a leg in battle. They simply replaced it.

    But like any military or shipping, piloting industry, wouldn't there be restrictions if you were in a wheelchair?

    Not trying to cause offence, but surely Starfleet ship officers have to be in top physical condition to carry out there tasks which could be quiet strenuous and demanding.

    No offense taken, I've taken all I can ever take from RL to be annoyed by anyone on the internetz :p

    I dont see how I couldnt hold a gun in a chair, maybe the melee attacks would be useless, but I sure something could be worked out.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    The.Grand.Nagus wrote: »
    Remember this episode? That said, I dont believe people that age are still serving in Starfleet. There is probably a mandatory retirement after 100 or something =p

    I remember this one
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    FurQue wrote:
    I remember this one

    Have you been reading this thread? Do you remember the post I made earlier talking about how STO's time period is 30 years after nemesis, which would make it alot longer after TOS?
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Melee could be Ramming Speed on Ground.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    MegaZer0 wrote: »
    Melee could be Ramming Speed on Ground.

    I like this idea.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Also for the girl on DS9's case Cardassian artificial gravity systems interfered with Federation antigrav systems. Dax made the claim that she hasn't seen a wheelchair for 300 years. If we ever see a wheelchair, then it is either due to some race which evolved in a low gravity, some colonist from a luddite or poor colony, or some race that is not part of the Federation or Klingon Empire and is at about early 21st Century technology or earlier. Any member of the Federation would not have a wheelchair and any member of the Klingon Empire should not have a wheelchair. Therefore, no Captain would ever have a wheelchair or the 25th Century equivalent.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    starkaos wrote: »
    Also for the girl on DS9's case Cardassian artificial gravity systems interfered with Federation antigrav systems. Dax made the claim that she hasn't seen a wheelchair for 300 years. If we ever see a wheelchair, then it is either due to some race which evolved in a low gravity, some colonist from a luddite or poor colony, or some race that is not part of the Federation or Klingon Empire and is at about early 21st Century technology or earlier. Any member of the Federation would not have a wheelchair and any member of the Klingon Empire should not have a wheelchair. Therefore, no Captain would ever have a wheelchair or the 25th Century equivalent.

    http://memory-alpha.org/wiki/Wheelchair

    That is not true.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Not gonna happen, Cryptic have much bigger priorities than designing, modelling, texturing and animating wheelchairs (lets not even get into what they'd have to do with getting them to work with the alien species being able to be so huge and so tiny and not making the wheelchairs look like either small cars or micro machines). It's simply too much work for too little payoff.

    Not something you want to read i'm sure, but that's the likely outcome.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Photonic chair!!! Of course if the power goes out you'll be flopping on the ground.

    Seriously though, if they can make Data's body then surely they can make a cyborg style fix to lower extremities.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Cormoran wrote: »
    Not gonna happen, Cryptic have much bigger priorities than designing, modelling, texturing and animating wheelchairs (lets not even get into what they'd have to do with getting them to work with the alien species being able to be so huge and so tiny and not making the wheelchairs look like either small cars or micro machines). It's simply too much work for too little payoff.

    Not something you want to read i'm sure, but that's the likely outcome.

    Its not something I want to read you are right, they could however make a species that was wheelchair bound and make the sizes all very similar? This would take most of the work out of resizing them.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Euclid-Fugazi wrote:
    Photonic chair!!! Of course if the power goes out you'll be flopping on the ground.

    Seriously though, if they can make Data's body then surely they can make a cyborg style fix to lower extremities.

    Data was unique though, they could not replicate him without killing him.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    FurQue wrote:
    Data was unique though, they could not replicate him without killing him.

    But its years later and the tech would not have gone unstudied. Some advances would have been made.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Euclid-Fugazi wrote:
    But its years later and the tech would not have gone unstudied. Some advances would have been made.

    He doesnt care about anything like this he wants his wheelchair in the game and could care less how relevant or behind the times it is. That being said I see the likelihood of this happening to be non existent. I cant see a whole lot of people being interesting in using it and they arent gonna waste dev time on one person.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Floridaguy74656 wrote: »
    He doesnt care about anything like this he wants his wheelchair in the game and could care less how relevant or behind the times it is. That being said I see the likelihood of this happening to be non existent. I cant see a whole lot of people being interesting in using it and they arent gonna waste dev time on one person.

    I think there would be a lot of people wanting to go into a chair if they could.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Floridaguy74656 wrote: »
    He doesnt care about anything like this he wants his wheelchair in the game and could care less how relevant or behind the times it is. That being said I see the likelihood of this happening to be non existent. I cant see a whole lot of people being interesting in using it and they arent gonna waste dev time on one person.

    I support the use of wheelcairs. ;)
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    MegaZer0 wrote: »
    I support the use of wheelcairs. ;)

    Given that you both have very very similar avatars im guessing your either good friends or the same guy with 2 accounts.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Floridaguy74656 wrote: »
    Given that you both have very very similar avatars im guessing your either good friends or the same guy with 2 accounts.

    Probably just a coincidence.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    not the same guy at all
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    MegaZer0 wrote: »
    not the same guy at all

    Wow is this some kinda joke ???? LOL LOL LOL
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Floridaguy74656 wrote: »
    Wow is this some kinda joke ???? LOL LOL LOL

    I'm not laughing :(
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    FurQue wrote:
    I'm not laughing :(

    Oh no I think your request for a wheelchair was genuine. I do however think that you and the other guys with the same avatar are either friends or the same person lol.
  • Archived PostArchived Post Member Posts: 2,264,498 Arc User
    edited July 2011
    Floridaguy74656 wrote: »
    Oh no I think your request for a wheelchair was genuine. I do however think that you and the other guys with the same avatar are either friends or the same person lol.

    I just think there are lots of Goomba lovers out there.
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